be deployed to the clients. The server is also used for administration and for providing reports about client compliance to deployed policies.

Tivoli Configuration Manager servers

There are two Tivoli Configuration Manager servers used for remediation. Tivoli Configuration Manager Software Distribution Server is used to create remediation objects and publish them to the Tivoli Configuration Manager Web Gateway Server, where they are made available to clients requesting remediation.

3.3 Solution data and communication flow

Until now we have discussed the various components of our solution. This section explains the communication and data flow and how the various components integrate when the solution is being deployed.

Note: This section describes the NAC Framework solution. A similar description of the NAC Appliance solution is in Appendix A, “Hints and tips” on page 441.

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